What is a “document”? A document is a record of some (typically written) content – a publication, a contract, a statement, a painting – at a moment in time. Until the advent of computers (and scanners), the media typically considered useable for such records included papyrus and vellum, which is basically leather. For a thousand … Read more
ActivePDF, a global leader in award-winning PDF automation software, recently announced a major enhancement release of the company’s flagship product Toolkit and the addition of Toolkit Expansion Pack.
SD Times, a leading periodical targeting systems and application developers, has featured PDF in its December 2017 publication. The journalists at SD Times interviewed various members of the PDF technology community, including experts from several PDF Association member companies, to get their read on how PDF is faring in the marketplace, what PDF 2.0 means, … Read more
PDF 1.7, the final Adobe edition of the PDF specification, was published in 2006, and converted to an ISO standard in 2008. Since then, Working Group 8 of ISO TC 171 SC 2 has worked for nine years to overhaul the document; correcting errors, improving documentation and in some cases, entirely rewriting the definition of … Read more
The latest release of veraPDF, the industry-supported, open source PDF/A validator, is now available for download. Version 1.10 is the first release of veraPDF as part of the Open Preservation Foundation’s reference toolset. This release has improvements in creating and cleaning up temporary files as well as parsing of text-related data in PDF documents, resulting … Read more
PDF Days Europe is the most popular PDF event of the year. It’s where the PDF industry meets, and where institutional and corporate users come to learn what else PDF could do for them. The first two PDF Days will offer a broad range of educational sessions focussed on current and perennial topics in the world of PDF technology implementation.
Die PDF Days Europe ist die bekannteste und beliebteste PDF-Veranstaltung des Jahres. Sie ist der Treffpunkt der gesamten PDF-Branche, bei der sich Endanwender, Entwickler und Hersteller gleichermaßen über die neuesten Trends aus dem PDF-Bereich informieren können.
The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) is a new initiative to promote awareness and development of technologies that contribute to broad-based accessibility in electronic content. This organization has recently posted a matrix of PDF viewers along with information about how these various viewers address the needs of those with print disabilities. PDF developers listed in … Read more
Das Nationalarchiv der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (NARA) ist die finale Aufbewahrungsstelle für die von allen anderen Behörden der US-Bundesregierung erstellten Langzeitaufzeichnungen.
PDFs haben unter anderem den Vorteil, dass herstellerunabhängig ohne Abstriche bei der Wiedergabe lesbar sind. Diese Interoperabilität ist der Schlüssel zu unserer Branche.
